[fpc-pascal] Free pascal 1.0.6

[Matúš Kudláč]

I want to ask about that hanging of the IDE. Was that the problem of Win32
release or GO32v2 release?


On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Tomas Hajny <XHajT03 at hajny.biz> wrote:

> On Fri, July 12, 2013 20:33, Sven Barth wrote:
> > On 11.07.2013 22:14, Matúš Kudláč wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>      I want to use Free Pascal 1.0.6 in windows XP Professional 32bit. I
> >> know to ask some questions about that. Are there some stability problems
> >> with that version(compiler, IDE, debugger, ...)? If there are can I make
> >> some changes to make it stable(for example to edit the properties of the
> >> shortcut).
> >
> > Others asked you this already, but just to be on the safe side: Do you
> > really mean Free Pascal 1.0.6 as released ten years ago or do you mean
> > Lazarus 1.0.6 (which uses Free Pascal 2.6.2) as released a few weeks ago?
> >
> > If it is really the first case then I don't really see anything that
> > would not work with 2.6.2 that did work in 1.0.6... (except it's
> > something that relies on implementation details)
>
> Well, I could imagine some potentially relevant cases:
>
> 1) Necessity to work with a closed source unit compiled with that version
> (or unit to which the original sources are lost, which is almost the same
> ;-) ).
>
> 2) Code using lots of assembly and expecting the original calling
> convention (this falls into your category of "implementation details", but
> it's an understandable one if it involves large amount of code which would
> need to be not only modified but possibly also debugged thoroughly because
> there are more differences than just the way of passing variables - in
> particular ebx needs to be saved). Although in that case 1.0.10 should be
> a better option than 1.0.6 - unless the original poster has 1.0.6 only and
> not 1.0.10 (in the situation when we do not offer this version for
> download any longer, but I could imagine that finding both would be still
> possible).
>
> Obviously, these are just random shots and pure speculation - the poster
> clearly stated that he didn't want to disclose the reasons.
>
> Tomas
>
>
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